The excitement of the new decade and our upcoming fifth anniversary has the YouTube team itching to make the site experience better than ever before. We have all kinds of ideas about new things we could build and launch, but we are also taking some significant time in the coming months to do some early "spring cleaning" on the site design and user experience.

What will this mean to you? Well, it means you'll see some things about the site design evolving to be more consistent across the site. And some things that haven't worked as smoothly as we would have liked them to will get the attention they deserve. Lastly, we may determine that some things we tried out just didn't fly and remove them from the site.

We'll be using a number of inputs to build our "to do" list: usage data that shows the things you use the most versus things that very few people use; usability testing that can help us understand what's broken that needs fixing; and, last but not least, we'd like to hear from you directly...

What would you want to see fixed on the site? What would you remove completely, if you had your druthers? We'll use your feedback to help prioritize what we focus on, so we can all experience a cleaner, easier-to-use YouTube.

Please enter your feedback here and/or browse and vote on ideas others have had. We'll take a few weeks to digest your comments and will respond directly to the ideas you're most excited about.

please fix the subscriber module so it reaches all our subscribers. Also partners who make a second channel should have no problem getting it partnered. Also Fix the error message that has been happening recently when you first upload. Thanks so much!

Also, in addition, please give secondary channels a parent/child relationship to the big channels and allow parters to post to both from their main account.

Also, it'd be nice if the top 100 meant top 100 families of channels, so parent/child channels would occupy the same position, increasing exposure for child channels by having them with the main ones on the list but also leaving more room for other folks in the top 100

Can you please find a way to fix the issue where every time we upload videos, it gives the "ERROR TRY AGAIN LATER FOOL!" message? People with lots of subscribers get 400 or more clicks in the first ten seconds a video is up, and all of those viewers don't get to VIEW anything because the video doesn't play.

Please allow us the creative freedom to use licensed music! I'm tired of my videos going silent and tired of picking from your tracks. Can't the music company's see this is a way for them to give their music some light?

Subscriptions should be easier to remove; preferably right from the Subscriptions list page. As it is now, you need to individually remove them by going to their channel page and clicking "Unsubscribe"... kind of a pain if you've subscribed to tons of channels for some specific reason, then no longer need it.

Also, I agree with @klaatu42 - I'm hearing impaired and would absolutely LOVE if more people would caption their videos. A tool is supposedly coming out (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4BRY56u2xw), and I am dying for it to be released.

I think that there's one thing the people who are really involved in the community want to see: a non-biased liason between both YouTube and the community who can act as a way for the users to communicate directly with the company itself. It was somewhat implemented with the YouTube Community Council, and something similar was created by user JustA11en.

What I envision, though, is this:- a user who has no pre-existing ties to certain members of the community (not in a "relationship" with another YouTuber, not a member of an active collab channel), meaning that the person wouldn't be influenced more by one person than another- someone who is passionate about the community and website created here on YouTube- a person that understands the global impact that YouTube can have, especially when implemented in the correct way.

I've personally nominated myself in a previous video for such a position, and would be willing to advise YouTube on what they would need to do, and how to do it. And if the company didn't want to have me as the liason, I'd be willing to help them find a suitable alternative to me.

It's all up to you, though. I'm here and willing to help, and there's a lot of support for my idea. Now you just have to pick it up and help me run with it.

Please allow us a few more thumbnail options. its annoying how you spend a lot of time editing a video, and upload it and you have 3 really bad options to choose from, yet the 'partners' can basically upload custom ones, or so it seems anyway!

can we have a feature where we can upload a video, and then choose a date/time for it to be made available to others? at least this way it will be done processing when subscribers try watching it, they wont get errors and they will be able to view a much better video.

can we 'manage' our subscription better? its a bit tricky and a roundabout way of going about it when you want to unsubscribe to people...

They way we rate thing could be improved....i think people only ever rate 5 or rate 1, or just dont rate at all. a good or bad or thumbs up or down would be better. i think anyways

can we get rid of those annoying cartoonize yourself adverts? the other google ones are bareable and understandable, but seriously, do people still click on that cartoon one? its EVERYWHERE now.

give us somewhere to interact with your friends and subscribers and other people we are yet to meet. i try rate and comment as many peoples videos as i can, but it keeps saying that i need to 'copy the text in the image' as it thinks in an automatic bot or something. i understand why we need this and i agree, but after time you should be able to distinguish between people who send a lot of messages, or comment a lot of people etc.

other than that, keep it up. love youtube to death andhopefully you all enjoy my stuff too. youtube.com/teamzulu1

After all of the little errors are fixed:-error messages when a video has been posted recently.-replies sometimes not working like they should etc.

Possibly a youtube editior. Once a video has been uploaded you can just use a very basic editing like trimming the video, spliting the video and deleting split clips from the timeline. Not nessesary but it's just a thought and it would be unique to youtube.

I agree with many that when replying to comments users should just be able to use the twitter "@" style... Also, less ads would be awesome, but this is probably not possible, so just please take the ad that pops up ten secs into the video off... Finally, a larger "add to quicklist" icon on video thumbnails :) always miss it.

Don't include celebrities in the "Top 100 most subscribed of all time" because they have their own world, we want ours. We're just ordinary class citizens and they shouldn't deserve their place in the top 100. I mean, why don't you just add another sub category of celebrities? That way, everybody wins. :]

GET RID OF THE POP UP ADS IN THE VIDEOS!!! i can't stand how after a few seconds an ad will pop up telling me to cartoon myself or something. I don't mind ads on the side, or ads that are short videos just get rid of the pop up ads please!

Stop featuring the same people over and over and over and over again, the same people that everybody already have seen. Feature unknown channels instead, and focus on the content of the video, there´s a lot of lame videos that have been featured lately only because it´s a youtube partnered channel.

If you´re subscribed to a channel, have a unsubscribe button next to the video you watch so we don´t need to go to the channel to unsubscribe.

Replying to comments should be easier. Also the video limit should be increased for non-partners to at least 15 minutes. Gaming channels who are not partners yet, need at least 15 minutes to post a good-full-game.

I have a couple things1. DON'T USE FEATHER!2. Make the new channels optional3. Make banners at the top of channels available to people who aren't partners4. make an attempt at making it so that videos stop to load every 10 seconds...

Get rid of beta channels! Bring back the old bulletins like we had before. Let users create more than one account with one email address. Delete accounts that people have not logged into for over a year. Get rid of the "Show more comments" thing, bring back paged comments. And it would be nice if all the bugs and glitches could be fixed. Also, less ads.

The organization of comments needs work. When you're watching the video, you see people's replies to earlier comments, but you can't tell what they're replying to. Then when you click "all comments," they are threaded, but then sometimes it's hard to find the one that you previously saw on the main video page.

Get rid of the ratings and just do a thumbs up and down button like on the comments. Better thumbnail choices, like you can upload your own or choose from anywhere in the video. Be able to use music in videos if you give credit to the artists!

When I comment on a video, I type my comment, and click submit. My comment remains greyed out in the comment box. If I want to comment again, I have to refresh the whole page. Is that how it's supposed to be, or it it a browser glitch?

If you think about it, featuring nonpartners can help you in the long run because the attention they recieve will most likely bump them up to partner status which will promote feelings of goodwill towards youtube instead of the negative feelings I've been hearing and seeing a lot lately.

If there is something annoying me about youtube,it's gonna be the "copying videos" issue,I mean , you spend a LOT of time editing,cutting,diying to upload a video to youtube,so it can be perfect,and then,someone comesand uses a program to download your video,and uploads it again toy youtube!THE SAME VIDEO!I mean,your feeling like you wanna leave youtube immediatly!you should do something about that !

On the topic of ads... I know people are saying less ads, and I also know you have a business to run and free stuff on the web must be ad-supported. So within that framework, I'll try for some constructive criticism: I think I'd tolerate the ads better if there was more variety. Most of the time I see the same ad on the sidebar and popping up at the bottom of my video. It's redundant and annoying. Also, if I see the faces of the old man and old woman one more time I'm going to scream. It feels like 90% of my videos have that ad, or one asking me to make a cartoon of myself. If I didn't click on it the first 300 times, what makes them think this one's going to win me over? Ok, I know it's not that simple. But bottom line, try to get more variety of ads and I will be less annoyed.

I have a very good idea for youtube,i'll give you the basic one,you think of it..Is it possible to add a little LIVE chatbox anywhere beside a video,so all people watching the same video can have a good long chat about the video,instead of posting a comment,and then someone comes and replies on it,and you have to keep refreshing the page so you can reply on him (im talking about the comments that are often a long ones) basicly,a comment that leads to a LOOONG big conversation,they could just discuss it on the live chat box !

Channel design: At the very least give us the option to choose between the old and new.

Featured Videos: Feature videos from unknowns at least as much as partners to give unknowns a chance to get some exposure.

Partner: How about some more specific details about what the requirements are to become a partner? 'lots of subscribers and thousands of views' isn't exactly clear. How about some numerical guidelines? Something like at least x number of subscribers and y average views per day or something like that.

Ratings: Let viewers vote thumbs up / down and use the percent of up votes as the rating. This would give us a much better idea of what people think of a video.

Bringing HTML5 support with H.264 videos would finally bring to and end this senseless push for Theora and put us back on track to having a single, high quality, ubiquitous video codec. Not that that has anything to do with the design of the site, just sayin'

MAKE IT FASTER!!!, MY INTERNET IS REALLY GOOD BUT YOUTUBE IS SO DAMN SLOW!!! AND HD IS EXTREMELY BUGGY! AND HALF THE TIME VIDS WONT LOAD!!! PLEASE GOOGLE SELL YOUTUBE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL OWNERS AND GET RID OF THAT COPYRIGHT BULLCRAP

Changing the way Vevo videos are buffered was a good start. Videos that are or have become private should not be included in searches and any videos that have been deleted due to coyprights or unavailable to viewers (I live in Canada) should not be included in searches either.

I put together a more detailed list of things I'd like to see updated, revamped, or removed at:

http://vidiseo.com/youtube-spring-cleaning

Some of the areas I touch on include updating the comment system, morphing the rating system into a realtime sentiment tracking tool, increasing the number of thumbnails to choose from, and turning Groups into 'Group Viewing Rooms'.

Def. the errors of the videos that can't be played if they haven't been fixed. Also the error when first uploading a video when people can't see the video/ The video should finish processing before it goes live.

Also there seems to still be a sub box glitch which really affects people that have the problem like myself.

Being featured on the front page of Youtube was a crazy honor people loved and look forward too. Now there is a whole bunch of stuff. Being featured should mean something to people still. That should be brought back.

Also bulletin boards for friends was removed a long time ago. This was a useful thing because it kept people on youtube to interact. Very helpful when uploading a new video too.

make loading times faster. put youtube bulletins (the way they used to be) back on youtube. give us an option to remove the "enable realtime sharing" bar after we favorite or rate a video. when we click "all comments" make it not be so buggy where it will only show you the very last and very first comments. when you're on a regular video page, let us see the comments that reply to another comment slightly to the right, and below that comment, like it looks when you do "view all comments". let us open video links in new tabs from youtube channels themselves.

The one feature that I would like to see added/improved is a better subscription viewer & manager.

I noticed YouTube recently (at least I never noticed this feature before) instituted a way to ex-out new videos from those channels I'm subscribed to, which is great for those updates I'm not interested in and allows me to quikcly catch up on my subscriptions. But this needs to go further.

This feature needs to be expanded and cleaned up.

I think Google's Reader service is a great model to use where I can see all updates at a glance, check them out, and move on without excessive clicking.

The one thing that I really want is to get into my main account. Months ago I changed my password (which I do every now and then) unfortantly I forgot it and went to request a forgot password and followed the steps correctly. It has been months and I have yet to receieve the email. I had to create a second account just to be able to communicate and watch certain videos. I rather have my main one. Its like Youtube is run by a team of monkeys or something. My account is DriftyALison0. And I would like to actually get into it for once.

take out beta channels 4 starters. let people decide which 1 they want. also, let people not have 2 create a google account 2 have a youtube account. people who only have 1 email want extra channels that they share with friends who dont have emails. let people who arent partners have partner stuff. the only special stuff partners should have is being paid. also, make it easier 2 bcome a partner. put less ads. also allow custom thumbnails 4 nonpartners. feature unknown people. the people u advertise r already popular and everybody watches their vids. feature non partners. those should be the only ads. also, remove fred. he is old and annoying. you should also be able 2 edit a vid by trimming it. that is all i want and i want my requests fulfilled.

old accounts that aren't being used anymore. if someone hasnt logged on for 2 years, their username should be deleted. this allows for other people to have that username. its so aggravating when the one you want is taken by someone who isn't even using youtube.

More channel customization options for all. Something like a picture box and a text box you can put anywhere, and the option to remove the big video box (to taste your own medicine, why don't you try the big ugly video box on youtube homepage haha)

How about some more specific details about what the requirements are to become a partner? The only special stuff partners should have is being paid. also, make it easier 2 become a partner. put less ads. also allow custom thumbnails 4 non-partners.holidays to greece

i second jessica's proposal with one more condition - 2 years inactive AND ZERO upload. i can understand with 1 upload it is still possible for it to get a gazillion views 100 years down the road but ZERO uploads? seriously.

so remove them like right NOW. having real quality active youtubers is much better than tons of inactive ones.

"jessica said...old accounts that aren't being used anymore. if someone hasnt logged on for 2 years, their username should be deleted. this allows for other people to have that username. its so aggravating when the one you want is taken by someone who isn't even using youtube."

False flagging, false DMCAs, and vote botting are easily used to silence people with opposing viewpoints and that needs to stop, and the false flaggers should be accountable for their actions.And please stop allowing animal abuse/killing videos as entertainment. Only awareness videos to fight against abuse should be allowed.

construct a way to directly contact youtube to challenge false copyright claims- I have two claims that are completely false and I don't feel the need to have to draw up a legal document to have them removed.

look i only want to be able to watch a playlist where it actually works and increase the limit. also the copy write it annoying. every version of the second season of yugioh 5d for an example has had audio removed because of a false claim. they were given permission and now this is happening. finally help the partner system. 5 people i am subscribed to have had messages saying that youtube wants them to be a partner but then you say no at the last minuet. i mean what is going on. thanks for your time.

Make playlists more advanced, include subscription options for users. That way, people won't have to make twenty accounts..

Example:

Someone talks about both gaming, technology, and politics on their channel. After a while, users start complaining about seeing too much of gaming on their subscription box, and want something done about it.

The channel creator decides to create TWO extra channels for each topic he talks about, which is a gigantic annoyance to the users because that means he/she can fill up to 3 subsciption slots on our front page if we subscribed to all of his/her channels. This also annoys the channel creator as he/she now has to log in and manage THREE accounts.

My solution is to better develop the playlists. As soon as a user subscribes to a channel, they are given a bracket with up to 5 different video topics the owner of the channel can create(customizable by the owner of the channel, of course). There is also an option to subscribe to the whole channel, and see EVERY video uploaded, no matter the tag (see below).

When a user checks the box such as gaming that will appear when he/she hits Subscribe, the only videos that will appear on their subscription box will be videos where the creator used the gaming playlist, tag (or a completely new system) to put that video under.

Why?

Like said above, 8 channels for the SAME person is an extreme annoyance.

I know this is sort of out there but Can you consider a Disable Right click option on channels?Now hear me out. Me and alot of people on this site get their content stolen from someone, It's extremly rude how people are taking our channel infomation. Think of how many people you will be helping if you give us a "Disable Right Click" option on our channels? It would seriously mean so much to alot of people, including me. And Youtube will gain the respect it deserves.Thank you very much.

Add the ability to replace/change a video. A number of our early videos weren't encoded well before they were uploaded. Allowing us to replace lower quality videos with better quality ones (same content, just compressed better) while retaining the video's view count and comments would be excellent.

All I want is the ability to watch videos during the day without having to buffer for 3 times the length of the video. It's not internet speed, I try on connections ranging from 2 mbps to 100 mbps and it still is the same. Either this is a issue with YouTube's servers/bandwidth or something with my region and its access to YouTube. Either way, YouTube is basically useless other than at 2 AM.

standard youtube interface must have controls to do *video hyperlinking* of free content.

make a youtube license if you want.

I want to be able to take a part from 0:42 to 3:75 of video1, append a section from 5:55 to 6:66 from video2 and so on, to make my own remix where i can highlight linkages in content like we have hyperlinks in HTML pages. This will enable easy sharing of related information. Make sure that only Public Domain or CC licensed videos are allowed to be remixed. This will force people to release content as CC licensed. That will screw the balls of of the RIAA and MPAA even further. And creativity will become easier for more people without all the necessary video editing skills.

Completely get rid of flash so we can all move on to using 64bit browsers instead of being forced to use a 32 bit browser on 64 bit operating systems just to allow compatibility with backward technologies like flash.

It'd be a win for YouTube, a win for Google, a win for On2, a win for openness, a win for users, a win for device manufacturers, a win for anyone wanting to do video online, a win for everyone except for MPEG-LA. ;-)

If this wasn't the whole point of Google's acquisition of On2, there's got to be a major internal push for it now anyway. The impact of it boggles the mind...

For now 3 things:1) Make a way for people to share a private video with people that do NOT have a YouTube Account.

2) Add some type of live/interactive comment feature so multiple people can add comments/discuss the same video without using the current comment area - which is much more static and not "live" than what I'd like.

3) Change the channel design so there is a top and bottom background - and/or change the background options so there can be 1 BG image for the Player View and a 2nd BG image for the Grid View.

Come up with a policy guide that doesn't setup for "This Random Video that seems to be like the last 400 videos I looked at has been pulled because of a vague, undefined clash with the policy that is either entirely unobvious, or means that the policy is implemented at random moments."

Strict, not strict, PG-13, R, XXX, or Disney rated, political or apolitical - I don't really care as long as it's *consistent*. I see so much stuff pulled that seems to be "We got a complaint and pulled it", it seems to be almost entirely random.

How about providing a way to challenge inappropriate flagging? Tom Smith/TimeMachine's video of "A Boy and His Frog" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-xvlYMGck) has been flagged as inappropriate for minors for years now, and there's absolutely nothing objectionable about it. It's a Jim Henson tribute, for goodness' sake...

Stop the abuse by those who falsely flag and falsely report DMCA violations. Too many people have lost their accounts simply because some others do not like what they have to say. Stop the abuse which is denying people the ability to communicate in what purports to be the "world's largest town hall".

Make the home page less cluttered would be the first thing to consider. Clean, simple layout which people can navigate clearly. A more attractive home page wouldn't go a miss either. Add some colour in there too. Stop the constant reminders of UK filter notices every time I visit youtube.com.

More mainstream content like some tv shows or the like of. Games, maybe, but I would put that in a different section of the site. Advertising can be increased but please think about its placement, nothing is more annoying than when I'm watching a video on youtube with an Advert next to it flashing away, distracting me a lot, causing me to lose my concentration on the video, and my increase my disregard to the content of the Advert because it has disrupted and annoyed my viewing pleasure.bali villa accommodation

I was thinking about this for a while, might as well put it out there. Is there some way that you can make it possible to not have results from a certain user when searching? The way this would be done is to have an option to block that user's videos from showing up from future searches.

This would be helpful with dealing with users who resort to comment and tag spam.

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Automatically skip over videos removed for copyright infringment and delete them from our playlist with an email notification so that we when we click autoplay and step away from the computer, we aren't having to come back to it every other video. If I wanted to click each one individually, I wouldn't have clicked autoplay

I would suggest and option that allows one to sort the comments.Option 1: from oldest to most recent - always putting replies to comments after one another

Option 2: most recent (top to down) to oldest

I prefer the first option because I can see progression of conversations and it is easier to comprehend (this is of course for the lesser viewed videos, and not the mass produced ones)

When responding to someone who replied to their comment, we should automatically be able to reply to it directly (similar to Live Journal or any other blog type website) rather than having to search the persons name and find where you originally commented....that's just rediculous.

Also - unlimited ability to give thumbs up and thumbs down (or do the "image text" test - sometimes I genuinely like to give people kudos for something they said!

The ability to be notified if someone does give you a rating/thumbs up/down - that would be nice

Often we forget the little guy, the SMB, in our discussions of the comings and goings of the Internet marketing industry. Sure there are times like this when a report surfaces talking about their issues and concerns but, for the most part, we like to talk about big brands and how they do the Internet marketing thing well or not so well.

Often we forget the little guy, the SMB, in our discussions of the comings and goings of the Internet marketing industry. Sure there are times like this when a report surfaces talking about their issues and concerns but, for the most part, we like to talk about big brands and how they do the Internet marketing thing well or not so well.

How bout you guys provide the YouTube account users multiple homepage skins, from the original homepage design to the current one, similarly to forums. I personally found the older ones more appealing, but the current one is pretty good as well. This could work

Every time I see a pop-up ad it really turns me away from the site - I don't know how it could be distributed, but I'd almost be interested in a subscription where I could pay per-month and not have any ads!

My settings for annotations keep changing by themselves it seems, fixing that would be nice too.

Just please bring back the good old youtube streams, and old channels back. and what happen to the youtube remixer? and the bulletins? and the old youtube players? why do you keep removing and removing. you may not see it, but many people have loved this. look how many views i got on my videos, look at all the ppl who want the options back!

Please fix the playlist/playall thing. What is the point of watching videos that are split into several parts, if you have to load them yourself. Or have them played out of sequence. YouTube was the first spot I'd hit for videos, now it just angers me!!

***And why the hell don't you guys post answers to all our questions***

two main things:-the stupid pop up ads, those drive people crazy. We're watching our video, minding our own business, and then some ad about dungeons and dragons or tampons or something pops up and distracts us, your valued viewers. Sometimes, we accidentally click on it and then it takes us away from what we're watching and then our faces get really red, and our blood pressures go up and its a health problem now. -THE VIEW COUNT. Totally inaccurate. Again with the blood pressures.

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Upon completion of video playback, the You-Tube media-player exits full-screen mode & launches the enqueued video in a normal sized player & continues on down the play-list until all files have been played, however only the first file is played in full-screen mode.ie; (Broken Full-Screen Play-list Playback)

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